Dr. John Lott was interviewed by the editor of America's First Freedom, Frank Miniter, about the problems with the FBI crime data. Our previous research on this topic can be found here and here. Our op-eds on this are available here and here.
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More TV Police Show Bias: ABC’s The Rookie shows machine guns being used to Stop an Arrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u3iOjM9oQs As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, ABC's’ The Rookie is no different (Season 6, Episode...
CPRC in the News: Instapundit, Powerline, 1819 News, Zero Hedge, Real Clear Politics, American Greatness, and much more
According to gun expert and founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) John Lott, who served as the senior advisor for Research and Statistics in the Office of Justice Programs and then the Office of Legal Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice...
Media Bias on TV Police Shows: CBS’ FBI Most Wanted, Criminals Using Machine Guns to Commit an Art Robbery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9-AVdmPRcM As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, CBS’ FBI Most Wanted is no different (Season 5 Episode...
At National Review Online: What Vivek Murthy Gets Wrong about Gun Crime: The surgeon general wants to promote gun control through public health. He should try to get his facts right, first.
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at National Review. . ‘Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and adolescents,” U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy saidlast week, calling the situation a “public health crisis.” It has been a favorite talking point of the...
More TV Police Shows Bias on Guns: CBS’s S.W.A.T. shows environmentalist terrorists using machine guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCB5gXFIuEM In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison inmates only broke down the numbers for uses in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few...
On Sirius XM Patriot-The David Webb Show: Gun-free zones, stalking victimization and the broken criminal justice system.
The CPRC's Senior Fellow Nikki Goeser talks with substitute host Mary Walker on the David Webb Show about the murder of her husband Ben at the hands of her stalker, the dangers of gun-free zones and the broken criminal justice system. Thursday, June 20, 2024
On 98.9 WORD-Straight Talk with Bill Frady: Want to ‘Do Something’ to Stop Mass Shootings? Use Existing Involuntary Commitment Laws.
The CPRC's Nikki Goeser talks with host Bill Frady about her newest opinion piece at Townhall. She explains why red flag laws are not needed to keep guns out of the hands of the dangerously mentally ill. Tuesday, June 25, 2024
More TV Police Shows Bias on Guns: CBS’s S.W.A.T. shows more criminals using machine guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrHrHZiDxnU In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison inmates only broke down the numbers for uses in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few...
More TV Police Shows Bias on Guns: Yet CBS’s Blue Bloods shows more criminals using machine guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1cW-cI9g54 In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison inmates only broke down the numbers for uses in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few rifles,...
The continued false claim that firearms are the leading cause of death for children or teens, now from the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI8HviyBw18 On Tuesday, the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared: “Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and adolescents” and that it is “public health crisis.” This has been a favorite talking point from the...
At least 20 People Murdered and 45 Injured in Mass Shootings at Churches and a Synagogue in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan
The picture above shows the murderers attacking people. Another mass murder by Muslims in Russia (a list of mass public shootings in the US by Muslims from 1998 to 2023 is available here). Some other recent mass public shootings in Russia are available here (where 145...